[Fluff] Nobody will read this message. But apparently, some live updaters are unable to make a live update post in the ORAS Demo updater due to a transparent, slightly invisible [make update] button, including me.

Well, as the Pokemon ORAS Demo is starting very soon, looks like we will be losing this updater page in favor of the Pokemon ORAS updater. It's been a real nice time updating over here! But It's time for everyone to move on over to the new page!

[Smash] Did you miss it? Here is what happened!
The right size of the stage was covered in frozen spikes. Both TPP(Mario) and Ganondorf got hit, but Ganondorf was KO'd from the knockback first after some bouncing on the spikes.

[Streamer] <twitchplayspokemon> I thought it would be an obvious pick for the 3DS with how well stereoscopy is suited to racing games and how it helps convey a sense of speed, but I guess Star Fox works too

[Streamer] Twitchplayspokemon: @twitch_plays_3ds I was thinking to when waiting until the viewercount is at its peak tomorrow, but again I don't know what the contents of the demo is, you could just put it on now and have it run for a day or two, I don't know

[Streamer] Twitchplayspokemon: the 3DS stuff is mostly Deku's work, with some oversight and direction, everything else is mostly my work with others helping with accomplishing specific goals (Lua scripts to read Gameboy memory, or construction of a save file for PB

[Meta] Special thanks to TwitchSpeaks, Bowser was successfully defeated in Super Mario Bros. 3 by yours truly, along with some help from /u/MrCheeze, who contributed to some of the progress. We had some struggle with the movements in the stages, but it finally come down to a happy ending for Mario! WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS!

[Streamer] Partyof3: @Twitchplayspokemon i get that you want this chat to be neat and clean, but... doesn't that kinda devalue from the original vision of TPP? to me, TPP is unabashed chaotic behavior. Granted, it's probably for stadium, but still

Twitchplayspokemon: @partyof3 I'm making it more chaotic by banning patterns

[Streamer] DeadInSky66: @TwitchPlaysPokemon Speaking of announcing, remember when you did some live commentator tests way back when. Are you going to bring those back eventually, or no?

TwitchPlaysPokemon: @DeadInSky66 I would like to but it's a pain to set up, I need to change the buffer amount and that requires a restart of the stream and such, plus I have to manually mess about with Skype when bringing people on and set up desktop sharing etc

[Streamer] EliteAnax17: If you don't mind us asking, where did the idea to bet on Stadium 2 matches come from? Was it a personal experience from your earlier outside-Twitch life that you'd rather not elaborate on or inspired by Salty Bets?

TwitchPlaysPokemon: @EliteAnax17 I publicly stated awhile back that it was SaltyBet that inspired me to make an "automated game channel" on Twitch

[Streamer]TwitchPlaysPokemon: I don't mind that it was denied, TPP is already breaking some policies regarding copyright and trademarks, I can understand Twitch's desire to limit it as much as possible

[Streamer] DeadInSky66: @TwitchPlaysPokemon I know you said earlier that you were going to put in sub emotes during Red and you tested them, and they didn't go through. Have you ever considered using FrankerFaceZ emotes?

TwitchPlaysPokemon: @DeadInSky66 I only tested one that I suspected would be denied as it was an emote of a Pokemon and not TPP related in any way as other channels have gotten away with such emotes

[Streamer] <twitchplayspokemon> I'll be adding emotes when Red is playing

<twitchplayspokemon> I tried adding an emote recently but it got denied as I expected it might

<twitchplayspokemon> Twitch's guidelines on emotes aren't clear, they seem to let a lot of emotes through that violate their rules so I tried adding a "worst case scenario" emote to see if they'd let it through or not

[Stadium] Twitchplayspokemon: @bareisu in some ways it's harder in others it's easier, Pokemon selection was so much easier in PBR than Stadium 2 where I had to emulate how the Pokemon list functioned in order to determine what buttons to press

[Streamer] <reddash9> @Twitchplayspokemon: Would it be possible to have a second channel made just for PBR/Stadium2?

<twitchplayspokemon> @Reddash9 I'm happy for PBR to take a break, it's probably going to end up the most played game in terms of hours by a long shot anyway
<twitchplayspokemon> take a break between other games*

[Streamer] MarsAdeptEnten: The simple fact that multiple Voices are experiencing more lag than their norm isn't enough for you, Streamer-sempai?

TwitchPlaysPokemon: @marsadeptenten correct, it would have to be everyone for it to be enough for me, it only affecting some people indicates that the issue lies with Twitch or the connections of the viewer, do you have a problem with my line of reasoning?

[Streamer] <eliteanax17> Okay okay then I wont say anything more until you make an official announcement, I sent a new save to you and thats the only thing that happened
<eliteanax17> So basically the project is going into hibernation until streamer decides he wishes to pursue PBR

<twitchplayspokemon> @EliteAnax17 again, you're not official, so you're incapable of making an official announcement

[Streamer] TheFrozenGlaceon: @TwitchPlaysPokemon I really appreciate thath you've done this kind of thing not only for everyone, but I have found it to be somewhat therapeutic after a stressful day. Hence my support goes to you

[Streamer] MarsAdeptEnten: @Twitchplayspokemon : Can you get "ENDING~To Their Respective Futures~" for the leaderboard playlist?
TwitchPlaysPokemon: @marsadeptenten I'll definitely be adding songs to the playlist in the future

[Streamer] MarsAdeptEnten: Did you try talking to the Twitch higher-ups and send them a PM about this, @Twitchplayspokemon ?
TwitchPlaysPokemon: @marsadeptenten yes, I sent an email to support saying that I want to take the Twitch CEO up on his offer

[Stadium] So the scenario that happened on Stadium was freaking amazing. Team Blue's last Pokemon was Omastar which KOed 2 of Red's mon initially, and by the time it got to Red's last Pokemon, he had 4 HP left. Red's last mon? LazorGator. And somehow, Helix came out on top. With 1:9.9 odds against it. (Blue also had Omanyte :P) SOMEBODY PLEASE YOUTUBE THAT EPIC MATCH!

This was a quote from Twitch Support's Twitter account. Apparently, Twitch has been experiencing problems recently. Even the Twitch emoticons are not working/functioning properly. Unfortunately, we don't have any other information when everything will be fixed again.

[Streamer] <twitchplayspokemon> !balance
<twitchplayspokemon> still not working
<twitchplayspokemon> oh well, still fixed a moveset bug
<twitchplayspokemon> also the "hours since last active" is now properly dimmed on the leaderboard~7:54:00 AM UTC

[Chat] Multiple users were recently banned for counting and spamming Kappas. This is the streamers response.

[Streamer] <twitchplayspokemon> Chat rules: No spammy messages
<twitchplayspokemon> I gave out lengthy timeouts, they'll be back tomorrow
<twitchplayspokemon> when it was 600 seconds people thought it was fun to get timed out

[Streamer] TwitchPlaysPokemon: @EliteAnax17 I appreciate what you're doing but I don't want you to be so noisy, try to make the best decision within your group and go with that, if it doesn't work out it can be changed later. I'm not thinking about PBR at all until maybe sometime in September and bringing it up like this forces me to think about it and address it

[Streamer] <twitchplayspokemon> I'll start work on PBR when I upgrade my PC, my current one isn't powerful enough which might cause timing issues, I expect to upgrade next month or less likely the month after.

[Streamer] <twitchplayspokemon> I'll start work on PBR when I upgrade my PC, my current one isn't powerful enough which might cause timing issues, I expect to upgrade next month or less likely the month afte

[Streamer] TwitchPlaysPokemon: personally I'd prefer if the order of teams were known beforehand but I understand this can result in less interesting matches, I ask those who are passionate about this to think of ways of selecting interesting teams of pokemon instead of making the making the match artificially unpredictable

[Streamer] TwitchPlaysPokemon: I would really like the music track to be displayed too but it's a bigger ask than it seems and I don't want to use chatbots unless there's a good enough reason to (dealing with the stream delay, supporting data mining)

[Commentator] <gamebrojeremy> @twitchplayspokemon, my mic is very old, I am getting a new one in the future. Sorry if it cut out during my match. I was talking with my sister so I clicked the mute button which causes the mic to go into a static like trance...

[Streamer] <schadenfreude555> @Twitchplayspokemon do you think it will be successful tho? It seems like tpp has this sort of hivemind while fpp is just a fish

<twitchplayspokemon> @Schadenfreude555 it's essentially RNG plays Pokemon with a very slow, but endearing random number generator, interest will undoubtedly die down but it may still have a small following, there was a TV show called fishcam in my home city that was very similar sans the Pokemon

[Streamer] <twitchplayspokemon> @Fishycheeze I was going to do that, but then I worked out the pokemon selection bug, the emulator freezing could happen at any time and it completely broke shortly after, I don't think a watchdog would help in this case

[Streamer] <twitchplayspokemon> @Flashmanbro I'm thinking about uploading my reference file for the music and have everyone fill in the metadata, I've seen people in the chat with a much better ear for pokemon music than me

[Streamer] * faithfulforce: I don't think the streamer is on anymore <3 Maybe he is, I don't know
* faithfulforce: @Redpotato15, the streamer rotated in 3 commentators, but the test is done for the day <3
* faithfulforce: Strange, now i can @Twitchplayspokemon you. Maybe it's if you've talked recently

<twitchplayspokemon> @Faithfulforce that's not true
<twitchplayspokemon> @Faithfulforce even if I'm not on my bot shares the same account, and that's always on

[Streamer] <twitchplayspokemon> if it turns out commentary is something worth doing then I'll need an announcer disable code, right now Stadium 2's audio is disabled because of a bug so I'm taking this opportunity to test it out

[Streamer] <twitchplayspokemon> I'll be testing the live commentary functionality at 10:00:00Z, anybody interested in being a commentator please send me a message, you must have a Skype account and a working microphone

[Streamer] <twitchplayspokemon> @Mistrauss currently the music disable code has been disabled because it was causing the pokemon selection bug, I have muted Stadium 2 until I have a better solution (I have asked Bobthepigeon to look into it)

[Streamer] <twitchplayspokemon> I'll be testing the live commentary functionality at 10:00:00Z, anybody interested in being a commentator please send me a message, you must have a Skype account and a working microphone

[Streamer] <twitchplayspokemon> I'll be testing the live commentary functionality at 10:00:00Z, anybody interested in being a commentator please send me a message, you must have a Skype account and a working microphone

[Streamer] <bexxxxxxx> @twitchplayspokemon would there be an application one would have to fill out?
<twitchplayspokemon> @Bexxxxxxx I don't know, I didn't think about it that far, I only checked to see if it was technically possible, I haven't thought about putting it into practice yet

[Streamer] twitchplayspokemon> with how reliable Pokemon selection has been I think it's safe to conclude that the problem was the music disable code was randomly changing the timings of the pokemon selection menu causing a desync

[Streamer] Twitchplayspokemon: I recently made a change that sorted the teams of pokemon by the order that the pokemon appear in the list, this should reduce the opportunities for that bug to present itself

[Streamer] TwitchPlaysPokemon: @Dracyoshi I appreciate your notes in the live updater about incorrect pokemon selection, if possible could you also make a note of how it messed up, did it overshoot or undershoot its target? did you notice any other irregularities? that sort of thing, it could be very helpful in fixing the bug

[Streamer] <twitchplayspokemon> @radicaltrain you're listening to live emulations of the soundtracks of various Pokemon games, not even rips from CDs or MP3 sites, actual raw files extracted from the game

[Streamer] TwitchPlaysPokemon: it's a glitch with the music disable code, the game depends on sound ending to trigger animation ends (similar to my problem with the subscription notifier when Stadium 2 started)

[Streamer] <twitchplayspokemon> @sgv_sth and then do what with the edited footage? my upstream bandwidth is so small I'd be uploading one or two videos a day, not fast enough to not lose content to Twitch's cull

[Streamer] <twitchplayspokemon> I doubt Twitch's music muting changes will affect TPP, however the video archive expiry will, maybe it's time for TPP to get an official YouTube channel, but there's no way I can upload so much data and export has length limits that TPP blows way past

[Streamer] <twitchplayspokemon> @Mencee for that I'd want to properly label every song with the system and game it's from, right now only songs have an appropriate title (the rest are fan-translations from the Japanese title or internal reference IDs)

[Streamer] <twitchplayspokemon> it seems like most of the music on brawlcustommusic.com doesn't loop appropriately (see "Loop Type: Song Loops Normally" and the way the waveform shrinks near the end), MP3 to BRSTM converters don't magically make it loop properly

[Streamer] <twitchplayspokemon> when deciding a song the selector gets the 10 least-recently-played songs and selects one at random, songs are also divided up into four categories: betting, warning, battle and result